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When I was in banking graduate school, the capstone class was the opportunity to run a bank, or at least a computer simulation of a bank. The American Bankers Association School of Banking at that time was mail studies, with…
To people in a lot of areas, the cost of climate change is what it may cost them to deal with repairs and improvements due to weather events. That’s a big deal, but there’s a lot more. University of Pennsylvania…
I wrote a blog post about Bob Casey’s campaign trying to paint businesses as greedy. The premise is that companies’ increasing prices for products more than inflation and/or cutting product size is greedy and causing high prices for consumers. Kamal…
These days artificial intelligence (AI) is all over the business news. A June 2024 New York times article talks about how robots can bring automated precision to drug development. A July 2024 article described the red-hot AI market helping landlords…
In February, Nancy and I had a couple of extra hours and decided to check out the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey. One can see it from the Turnpike near the Meadowlands Stadium. Mills Corporation started planning…
Since writing the "Greedflation" article, I read Fareed Zakaria’s book, “Age of Revolutions”. The book is about political, industrial, and scientific revolutions. The French revolution was a failure (afterwards people were not better off) because entrepreneurship and making a profit…
https://www.eisneramper.com/insights/tax/biden-proposal-tax-legislation-0424/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Mt91Mp5gVRFldqL88FpQcUVxQHDdoXRvBg4-M1nsQB_aRDaSOt5CBUdgxpZI4khiM5lj67OhhC_lNLf7tlpPmPIAWxA&_hsmi=302754096&utm_content=302754096&utm_source=hs_email I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. The budget gets negotiated, I suppose, but Biden always said that he wanted to increase taxes on only the billionaires and big companies. Some of these changes, such as capping…
Spring 2024 I recently started receiving emails from Senator Bob Casey about his “Greedflation” campaign. The campaign started in 2020 and continues. The premise is that companies increasing prices for products more than inflation and/ or cutting product size are…
I recently went to see Bob Dylan on his Rough and Rowdy tour. Sadly, he didn’t play the old songs such as “Times”. He’s changed. A lot of my career was spent in banking. I always thought that banks would…
For a long time now, I have thought that Chevy should revive the “See the USA in your Chevrolet” with 1950’s theme song by Dinah Shore. They ought to use the music, with an updated video but they haven’t done…
